The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive & the Secret History of the KGB - Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin
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The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the “most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source.” Its presence in the West represents a catastrophic hemorrhage of the KGB’s secrets and reveals for the first time the full extent of its worldwide network. Vasili Mitrokhin, a secret dissident who worked in the KGB archive, smuggled out copies of its most highly classified files every day for twelve years. In 1992, a U.S. ally succeeded in exfiltrating the KGB officer and his entire archive out of Moscow. The archive covers the entire period from the Bolshevik Revolution to the 1980s and includes revelations concerning almost every country in the world. But the KGB’s main target, of course, was the United States. Though there is top-secret material on almost every country in the world, the United States is at the top of the list. As well as containing many fascinating revelations, this is a major contribution to the secret history of the twentieth century. Among the topics and revelations explored are: The KGB’s covert operations in the United States and throughout the West, some of which remain dangerous today. KGB files on Oswald and the JFK assassination that Boris Yeltsin almost certainly has no intention of showing President Clinton. The KGB’s attempts to discredit civil rights leader in the 1960s, including its infiltration of the inner circle of a key leader. The KGB’s use of radio intercept posts in New York and Washington, D.C., in the 1970s to intercept high-level U.S. government communications. The KGB’s attempts to steal technological secrets from major U.S. aerospace and technology corporations. KGB covert operations against former President Ronald Reagan, which began five years before he became president. KGB spies who successfully posed as U.S. citizens under a series of ingenious disguises, including several who attained access to the upper echelons of New York society.
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This post has 10 comments with rating of 4.7/5
May 7th, 2022
Great. Can you upload The Definitive FDR by James McGregor Burns narrated by David stifel.
May 7th, 2022
Very interesting to reflect who may have been greased by Russian cash in recent yrs, esp Western politicians & political parties. Socialist politicians in my own country have reserved their criticism for Ukraine & the EU rather than the genocidal Russians over the course of the current brutal invasion. They have done so in our Oireachtas/parliament, and in the EU parliament. A genuinely sickening display, reminiscent of the Cold War worship of extreme ideologies.
May 8th, 2022
Outstanding upload, I read this my Junior year in H.S (attracted by its scarlet red cover) and was blown away by what was written when I noticed it was not a work of fiction or spy novel, which I thought it was being I never read prologues , intros etc. at that age lol. After I was done, I would never trust a soul or any institution again…ever. I began seeing two seperate lives and personalities in everything , I began to slowly understand why there was such heavy handedness by parts of our gov. in dealing with groups and other foreign gov. , and many other things i was a critic of. This book is the blueprint to all the other great works that would come after, Like ‘Legacy of Ashes’ , ‘The Devil’s Chessboard’ etc. This book was also the rude awakening , that made me realize how incredibly uninformed America was/is as a whole, with very little desire to correct it.
May 9th, 2022
@caesar963
Maybe that’s just in Ireland. I haven’t seen many socialists this side voice support for Putin. Corbyn might have, I suppose, but who gives a sh1t what that old duffer says now.
May 9th, 2022
I don’t think the problem can be so easily attributed & isolated to Ireland. It’s a long, shameful tradition in the west. Support for the worst regimes, ideologies & “strong” men - often if they’re “the enemy of your enemy.”
It can also take the form of indirect support; expediently deflecting criticism onto some other entity (I honestly heard one socialist politician in debate attempting to conjure all condemnation of Putin into an extended critique of the phcking Czar. By that method, he avoided an entire century of horrors).
None of this is new, Orwell used to condemn socialists in the west who obsequiously lauded Russia as a utopian paradise.
May 10th, 2022
@caesar963
Yes, Orwell indeed did that, whilst remaining essentially socialist himself.
Nuance, see. A word that’s been entirely forgotten.
May 10th, 2022
@caesar963
And what you call “tradition” doesn’t address what I said - you are suggesting a socialist support for Putin. I am saying I haven’t encountered that, possibly apart from the odd SWP tankie.
There is little to no evidence to what you’re posting short of anecdote.
May 24th, 2022
thanks for sharing
August 14th, 2022
@tenbenson he does that often. Like many of you I have read comments on many history novels. I have scene Caeser speak from a place of absolute knowledge only to eventually realize hes mostly full of s**t.
October 13th, 2023
Thank you! :)
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